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Amazon pays taxes (and fights for JEDI), SoftBank gains on Sprint and what ClassPass tells us about the fitness economy

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, News Commentary, News, Tech News

4.29.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Kara and Scott talk about what it means for Amazon to be paying (minimal) taxes, as Jeff Bezos is "going Hollywood", and the company battles with the government over JEDI. They also revisit Google's quiet dismissal of top executives -- the company's longtime head of HR left this week. This week, the FTC ordered the big tech companies -- Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple -- to hand over information about all the mergers and acquisitions that were too small to report over the past decade. In listener mail, we hear about Class Pass -- the decade's first "unicorn" -- and the fitness industry in general. Scott predicts that eventually India will ban Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, this is Pivot from the Vox Media Podcast Network.

0:06.3

I'm Cara Swisher.

0:07.3

And this is Scott Galway.

0:09.0

Happy Valentine's Day Scott.

0:10.4

I deeply adore you.

0:11.4

And I was wondering if you were going to remember.

0:13.6

I don't.

0:14.6

I was wondering if you were going to remember.

0:16.6

I bought you nothing.

0:17.6

I bought you nothing whatsoever.

0:18.8

Although my son did an amazing thing for his girlfriend.

0:21.7

I can't talk about it right now.

0:22.7

He's bringing it to her.

0:23.7

Like my son is the best to have Valentine's Day for his girlfriend.

0:26.0

But I did not.

0:27.0

I was thinking I'd made no effort for you.

0:28.8

And here we are.

0:29.8

Okay.

0:30.8

So I bought you a Valentine's card and the only problem was I ran out of space riding on

0:35.6

the front and the back and I had to buy another card.

0:38.9

What is that?

0:39.9

It's letters.

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